Competition Open Day
Open Day to view the Little Forest site to help inform your Little Forest Open Art Competition submission — site tours at 11.30am & 2pm.
This Open Day is the perfect opportunity for you to explore the Little Forest site if you are thinking of submitting an artwork to our Little Forest Open Art Competition, to find artworks to display at Art in the Garden 2026.
There will be site tours at 11.30am & 2pm.
If you are intending on attending please email: littleforestuk@gmail.com so that we can look out for you.
Our Open Art Competition, now in it’s 8th year, will find interesting artworks to show during Art in the Garden 2026, an ‘Open Studio’ style event in the Hampshire countryside. We will display the work of 20+ invited artists and makers, as well as work by the LFLA team, in and around a 3 acre wild meadow and along the woodland path. There are many different areas to display your work including: old corrugated pig huts; woodpile wall; by the pond; and under mature oak & yew trees.
The Competition is open to any artist or maker working in any medium, living in Hampshire or the adjoining Counties. Entrants must be 18 years of age or over, including students.
We will select a number of artworks from the entries to exhibit around the site. The judges will select an overall winner from these, who will be announced at the preview. They will receive a prize of £150. There will also be a People’s Choice prize of £50, awarded at the end of the event, for visitors to choose their favourite.
The judging panel are:
Jo Bushnell, Director, Aspex Portsmouth
Joe Ross, Street Artist, and our winner from 2025
as well as LFLA’s Jan Griffiths and Adrian Mundy.
Download the full information pack & appliaction form from out website – littleforestlandart.wordpress.com/little-forest-open-competition-how-to-enter/
The Open Day is also an opportunity for anyone interested in joining the artist-led LFLA team, helping to look after the site throughout the year. We meet regularly, spreading our time between cutting back the brambles, keeping the paths clear; and being creative with individual and group artistic projects.
Don’t forget your wellies!!
Sorry – STRICTLY NO DOGS (unless guide dogs)
The track is a bit hard to find. Here are links for the track entrance:
GoogleMaps
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